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WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted that any allegation that his organization was close to China was an “outright lie.”
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Tedros was <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/who-chief-denies-he-sided-with-china-at-start-of-covid-outright-lie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> by National Review reporter Jimmy Quinn if he regretted his initial handling of Covid, as concerns had been expressed that he had hewed too close to Beijing&#8217;s line.
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“At one point or the other, we had issues with many countries,” Tedros responded. “If we had issues with many countries, it means maybe we’re doing the right thing. But the allegation that we’re close to China or something is an outright lie, actually.”
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“People who try to build narratives, they say that,” he continued. “But from what happened, start from there, and until now, if you’ll see all the relationships we had with countries, and some of the misunderstandings with countries, sometimes with this country the other opposite allegation with the other, it’s because we focus on science.”
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In June 2022, it was <a href="https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus/193248/who-boss-secretly-blames-china-lab-for-covid-leak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Tedros &#8220;privately believes the Covid pandemic started following a leak from a Chinese laboratory,&#8221; according to a top government official. &#8220;While publicly the group maintains that ‘all hypotheses remain on the table’ about the origins of Covid, the source said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), had recently confided to a senior European politician that the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, where infections first spread in late 2019.&#8221;
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In May 2020, a <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/corona-ausbruch-vertuscht-muss-china-fuer-die-pandemie-schaeden-zahlen-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000170816271" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report from Der Spiegel</a> claimed WHO officials communicated with the Chinese government, and might have deliberately delayed giving other countries critical information about the spread of the novel coronavirus after being pressured by China and its president, Xi Jinping.
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The report claimed that BND, the German Federal Intelligence Service, discovered that &#8220;Xi met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on January 21&#8221; and asked WHO to delay reporting accurate information about the novel coronavirus, The Daily Caller reported.
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WHO called the report “unfounded and untrue,&#8221; saying that the two had never spoken over phone.
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Later, Tedros praised China, saying he appreciated the information the communist country provided to WHO.
&#8220;If you remember at the initial stage, you remember about the sequence, they provided the sequence immediately, and we appreciated that they shared the sequence of the virus Sars-CoV-2 immediately. And then there were other things like especially the measures they were taking on Wuhan to slow the speed of the spread to the rest of the world. And we identified that and we encouraged them to do that, because slowing the spread is very important,&#8221; he said.
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New whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges the Central Intelligence Agency bribed six officers investigating the origins of COVID-19 with hush money to bury their conclusion that the virus likely originated from a Chinese lab.
U.S. House lawmakers on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/testimony-from-cia-whistleblower-alleges-new-information-on-covid-19-origins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Tuesday that an anonymous &#8220;highly credible senior-level CIA&#8221; official alleged that six members with &#8220;significant scientific expertise&#8221; in the federal agency tasked with investigating the roots of SARS-CoV-2 found that the virus likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
&#8220;According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,&#8221; House panel chairmen reps. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) and Mike Turner (R-OH) wrote.
But after the officers concluded their findings, the CIA whistleblower claims the intelligence agency offered financial incentives to six of the seven experts involved in the investigation to change their narrative on the virus, according to a letter sent Tuesday to CIA Director William Burns.
&#8220;The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.&#8221;
The committee sent a separate letter to former CIA chief operating officer Andrew Markridis, requesting that he participate in a &#8220;voluntary transcribed interview&#8221; on September 26, 2023. According to the whistleblower, Markridis &#8220;played a central role&#8221; in the formation and conclusion of the COVID investigation.
Markridis retired from the agency in 2022 after concluding his agency&#8217;s response to COVID.
Lawmakers also set a deadline on the same day for the CIA to turn over all records regarding the establishment of the COVID Discovery Teams, pay history that includes the awarding of any financial or performance-based incentive/financial bonuses, and all communications from those teams with all members of federal government agencies, including the FBI, State Department, Health and Human Services, Energy Department.
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The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/politics/china-lab-leak-coronavirus-pandemic.html">Department of Energy</a> and the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origins-lab-china/index.html">FBI</a> were among the first federal agencies earlier this year to assess with moderate confidence that the pandemic&#8217;s origins were most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified a long-awaited <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> in June about potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of COVID. The report found that three lab workers who became ill in 2019 could not be directly linked the source of the pandemic as their symptoms were &#8220;consistent with but not diagnostic of COVID-19.&#8221;
&#8220;The I.C. has no information, however, indicating that any [Wuhan Institute of Virology] genetic engineering work has involved SARS-CoV-2, a close progenitor, or a backbone virus that is closely related enough to have been the source of the pandemic,&#8221; the report said.
But Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/ex-dni-john-ratcliffe-calls-covid-lab-leak-only-explanation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before Congress in April that &#8220;a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by common sense.&#8221;
&#8220;If our intelligence and evidence supporting a lab leak was placed side by side with our intelligence and evidence pointing to a natural origins or spillover theory, the lab leak side of the ledger would be long, convincing, even overwhelming — while the spillover side would be nearly empty and tenuous,&#8221; added Ratcliffe.

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People are being misled about studies examining the effectiveness of face masks against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID,</a> according to Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci">Anthony Fauci</a>.
Jonathan Karl, a co-anchor of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYq5aF3SVk">pressed Fauci</a> on the efficacy of masking near the end of an interview on Sunday. &#8220;There’s a new study out that suggests that masks were actually not effective, at least in a global sense, in containing the pandemic,&#8221; Karl said. &#8220;What is your sense, looking back at all this? Did masks prove to be less effective than you anticipated?&#8221;
Fauci responded by insisting that &#8220;some of the studies are confusing&#8221; and then singled out an <a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full">analysis</a> released in January by The Cochrane Institute, which raised the prospect that masks hardly made a difference in stopping the spread of respiratory viruses such as COVID.
The study prompted headlines saying that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html">face masks made</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/face-masks-made-little-to-no-difference-in-preventing-covid-study/">&#8220;little to no difference&#8221;</a> in preventing the spread of COVID after a wave of mask guidelines and mandates during the pandemic, but Karla Soares-Weiser, editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, <a href="https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review">responded with a statement</a> in March saying it was an &#8220;inaccurate and misleading interpretation&#8221; to claim that the study found that &#8220;masks don&#8217;t work.&#8221;
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Fauci JUST NOW: “There are a number of studies that show that masks actually do work.” <a href="https://t.co/hJeT6EZXyw">pic.twitter.com/hJeT6EZXyw</a>
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&#8220;The study that recently has been now quoted a lot and causing a lot of confusion is this Cochrane study, which even the people who run the Cochrane study say that that study can be misleading because people have commented on that study saying, &#8216;Absolutely masks don’t work,&#8217; which is absolutely not the case because there are a number of studies that show that masks actually do work,&#8221; Fauci said.
&#8220;And there’s a lot of confusion where you take a broad series of studies, and you look at them in a meta-analysis,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Only a couple of those studies were specifically looking at COVID. So, I think we’d better be careful that that study that people keep talking about can be very, very misleading. There’s a lot of good data that masks work.&#8221;
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Fauci, now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-joins-georgetown-as-distinguished-university-professor">part of the faculty</a> at Georgetown University, was a longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. Toward the end of his tenure in government, Fauci faced blowback for how he jumped from advising people not to wear face masks early in the COVID pandemic to advocating for masking against the virus, a change he attributed <a href="https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_e58c20c6-8735-4022-a1f5-1580bc732c45">to the emergence of new data</a>.
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Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis.  More subterfuge. <a href="https://t.co/UcjOa8flkr">pic.twitter.com/UcjOa8flkr</a>
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In an interview that aired on CNN last week, Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-confronted-with-study-that-raised-doubts-about-masks">insisted</a> that &#8220;many studies&#8221; show masking protects people on an &#8220;individual basis&#8221; rather than on a &#8220;broad population&#8221; level.
One of Fauci&#8217;s most vocal critics, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), shot back in a post to X. &#8220;Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large, but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis. More subterfuge,&#8221; Paul said.

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Two California high schools have canceled their upcoming football games over COVID cases among students in the latest instance of new COVID measures cropping up as the school year starts.
Esparto High School, which is located west of Sacramento, canceled its football game, which was scheduled for Friday, after six players contracted COVID and seven more players were out due to injuries.
“Ensuring the well-being of students is not only a moral obligation but also a legal and ethical responsibility,” the district&#8217;s superintendent, Christina Goennier, <a href="https://fox40.com/news/local-news/yolo-county/covid-19-cases-injuries-causes-esparto-high-to-cancel-football-game/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> FOX40.
The local county health officer, Dr. Aimee Sisson, expressed support for the school&#8217;s&#8217; decision to cancel the game.
“Our role in the health department is to support our schools in being able to stay open for that in-person instruction,” Sisson said. “We provide support certain tips on what to do when there are cases provide testing resources. But really our goal for this school year is to keep kids in school in person, but also to do so safely.&#8221;
It is not yet clear whether teams will make up the game, so a makeup date has not been scheduled.
Likewise, Santa Paula High School, north of Los Angeles, also canceled its Friday football game against La Cañada High School due to 20 positive COVID cases within the football and cheerleading teams.
&#8220;Canceled because of COVID, it&#8217;s going around the team,&#8221; one student <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/santa-paula-high-school-cancels-football-game-due-to-covid-outbreak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS Los Angeles. &#8220;Stopping things before it gets worse.&#8221;
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Some parents are frustrated that their kids are missing out after months of lockdowns.
&#8220;She couldn&#8217;t go to the movies. Couldn&#8217;t do nothing; locked down with a Chromebook,&#8221; one parent told the outlet. &#8220;It was horrible. Totally affected her life.&#8221;
The school&#8217;s football team, the Santa Paula Cardinals, are currently <a href="https://scorebooklive.com/california/football/teams/235505-santa-paula-cardinals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ranked</a> 3-0 in the Citrus Coast high school football standings, but the cancelation could potentially break their momentum.
A third high school also canceled its football game earlier in the season, according to Ventura County Health Officer Dr. Robert Levin.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve had two high schools that have had to cancel football games,&#8221; Levin said.
Nordoff High School in Ojai, which is up the road from Santa Paula, canceled a football game due to COVID cases.
COVID cases have ticked up in several areas of the country, including Los Angeles, where cases have jumped from 4% to 16% in one week recently.
Several other schools across the country and at least one California employer have implemented new COVID restrictions recently.
This week, a Maryland elementary school reinstated its face mask mandate after several students tested positive for COVID. Rosemary Hills Elementary School just north of Washington, D.C., is <a href="https://www.wbal.com/article/616010/2/mask-mandate-returns-for-one-class-in-montgomery-county-elementary-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requiring</a> the third grade class and school staff to wear masks for 10 days after “three or more” third graders tested positive for COVID.
Morris Brown College, a private, historically black liberal arts school in Atlanta, announced a two-week mask mandate last month despite no active COVID cases on campus. Students were required to practice social distancing and were prohibited from having parties or large gatherings. They were also required to get their temperature checked when they arrived on campus and comply with contact tracing efforts.
A major Hollywood movie studio brought back its mask mandate last month as well. Lionsgate reinstated its mask mandate for most of its Santa Monica office employees after several employees tested positive for COVID. The studio said it would have contact tracing efforts. Late last month, though, Lionsgate <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/08/lionsgate-mask-mandate-lifted-covid-outbreak-1235528599/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it would lift its mask mandate again.

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Journalist and podcaster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-others-blasts-newsweek-for-slamming-critics-of-article-referencing-women-as-non-men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn Kelly</a> said she regrets getting the COVID vaccine and additional booster shots after she recently “tested positive for an autoimmune issue.” 
Kelly, 52, has long been outspoken about her opposition to vaccine requirements for children, but she decided it would be best to get the shot herself. The conservative commentator said Wednesday that she realized it was a mistake to get the COVID shots after talking to her doctor when she tested positive for an autoimmune issue at her annual physical. 
&#8220;I regret getting the vaccine even though I am a 52-year-old woman because I don&#8217;t think I needed it,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;I think I would have been fine. I&#8217;ve gotten COVID many times and it was well past when the vaccine was doing what it was supposed to be doing.&#8221;
“I went to the best Rheumatologist in New York, and I asked her, do you think this could have to do with the fact that I got the damn booster and then got COVID within three weeks? And she said ‘yes.’ Yes,” Kelly continued. “I wasn&#8217;t the only one she&#8217;d seen that with.”
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In October 2022, Kelly was <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/megyn-kellys-anti-vax-lies-are-a-threat-to-public-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> for spreading “anti-vax lies” after she <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1582854900836290560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1582854900836290560%7Ctwgr%5E8da69c2dba3b48394c9da7e45bfba1fa5dc96baf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fmegyn-kellys-anti-vax-lies-are-a-threat-to-public-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> that children were “dying” from myocarditis and &#8220;other injuries&#8221; after getting vaccinated against COVID. In the tweet, Kelly went on to slam the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for adding the COVID vaccine to the children’s vaccination schedule. 
“HOW DARE THE CDC ADD THIS TO ITS LIST OF SCHOOL VACCINATIONS? Don’t listen,” Kelly warned last year. “Be very careful w/ your teenage boys in [particular] but girls too. These are not honest brokers. This is dangerous!”
The former Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scary-of-kids-dying-megyn-kelly-slams-cdc-after-they-add-covid-vaccine-to-kids-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last year that she initially believed the vaccine “was a miracle,” but she was “upset” by government overreach and wanted more information about any health risks associated with getting the COVID vaccine.
“The vaccines and the information about the damage that the vaccines are doing versus their efficacy is dark,” Kelly said. “Why is it being buried? Why can’t we talk about it?”
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“You can’t trust the American health services; they have only one mission, which is to push their vaccines on us,” she added.
The federal government continues encouraging Americans to get the vaccine and additional boosters. President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-request-more-funding-for-new-covid-vaccine-recommended-that-everybody-get-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last month that he would ask Congress for additional funding for developing a new COVID vaccine.
“It will likely be recommended that everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before or not,” the president said.

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President Joe Biden will mask up in certain situations and socially distance himself after first lady Jill Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tested positive</a> for COVID, the White House announced Tuesday.
On Monday, the first lady&#8217;s communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, told the press, “This evening, the First Lady tested positive for COVID-19. She is currently experiencing only mild symptoms.&#8221; The president tested negative both Monday and Tuesday morning and now will undergo a series of precautionary measures.
&#8220;He&#8217;s not experiencing any symptoms,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. &#8220;As far as the steps that he is taking since the president was with the first lady yesterday, he will be masking while indoors and around people in alignment with CDC guidance. And, as, as has been the practice in the past, the president will remove his mask when sufficiently distanced from others indoors, and while outside as well.&#8221;
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Reports <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/01/covid-cases-uptick-summer-2023-new-variant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggest</a> that a COVID wave is hitting the nation, but there is no information to indicate it is any deadlier than previous surges.
Biden&#8217;s return to masking comes after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-confronted-with-study-that-raised-doubts-about-masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several studies</a> have suggested that masking has no effect on stopping the transmission of the virus. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently disputed such claims.
“I am concerned that people will not abide by recommendations,” Fauci said on Sunday. “I would hope that if we get to the point that the volume of cases is such and organizations like the CDC recommends — CDC does not mandate anything — recommends that people wear masks, I would hope that people abide by that recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and their families.”
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As a presidential candidate, Biden promised to &#8220;shut down the virus,&#8221; a pledge which has yet to come to fruition.
In response to new COVID variants, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-request-more-funding-for-new-covid-vaccine-recommended-that-everybody-get-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in late August that he would ask Congress for additional funding for the development of a new COVID vaccine.
&#8220;I signed off this morning on a proposal we have to present to the Congress a request for additional funding for a new vaccine that is necessary, that works,” Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-request-more-funding-for-new-covid-vaccine-recommended-that-everybody-get-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;It will likely be recommended that everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before or not.&#8221;
The fully-vaccinated Jill Biden&#8217;s COVID diagnosis comes more than two years after the president <a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-46a270ce0f681caa7e4143e2ae9a0211">told</a> the American people, &#8220;You&#8217;re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.&#8221;
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JUST IN: The View announces that co-host Whoopi Goldberg is not present due to getting COVID, just one day after Jill Biden announced her infection as well.
They&#39;re prepping you for ‘the need for mail in ballots&#39; in 2024.
“As you can see Whoopi is not here… she has COVID! Yes!… <a href="https://t.co/lkWGiJQtl4">pic.twitter.com/lkWGiJQtl4</a>
&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1699089501799518428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The first lady also had COVID in August 2022. The president has had COVID twice.
For now, Biden is still scheduled to go to the G20 summit hosted in India later this week.

WILMINGTON, DE – AUGUST 13: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden puts his mask back on after delivering remarks following a coronavirus briefing with health experts at the Hotel DuPont on August 13, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Harris is the first Black woman and first person of Indian descent to be a presumptive nominee on a presidential ticket by a major party in U.S. history.

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Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, commonly known as Dr. Phil, said during a recent discussion with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that government officials who decided to shut down schools during the COVID pandemic were &#8220;throwing gas on a fire&#8221; in terms of exacerbating the existing problems facing America&#8217;s youth.
The second half of McGraw&#8217;s remarks during a special appearance on Cruz’s “Verdict” podcast last week were released on Tuesday.
&#8220;Right now, almost a third of fifth and eighth graders can&#8217;t read at the most fundamental level,&#8221; McGraw said. &#8220;They can&#8217;t read a sentence. And the question is, how did they get in the fifth grade? How did they get into the eighth grade? 19% of high school graduates can&#8217;t read. They cannot read.&#8221;
&#8220;How do you graduate high school, if you can&#8217;t read in the first, second, and third grade?&#8221; McGraw continued. &#8220;From the fourth grade on you read to learn. So, if you don&#8217;t learn to read in those first three grades, you don&#8217;t have that tool to learn for the rest of your life. And if teachers are going to pass them either way, then you&#8217;re just setting them up to fail.&#8221;
McGraw said he was called an &#8220;idiot&#8221; when he spoke out against shutting schools down for more than a couple of weeks and said remote teaching would do more damage to society than the virus itself.
&#8220;I think I&#8217;ve got 15 clips of different times that I said, shutting this country down and taking our kids out of school for a prolonged period of time and the epidemiological pediatricians estimate that it will cost somewhere around 15 million years of life lost for these kids,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And they figure that because you got roughly 50 million kids in public school plus the private schools and because of what they lost; they will never close that gap.&#8221;
McGraw explained how students missing that time in school would lead to them achieving less academically, leading to less appealing job opportunities later.
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&#8220;Lesser jobs are usually higher risk jobs because they&#8217;re blue collar and they&#8217;re working with machinery and construction and things where they get injured,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They have poorer health coverage, which means they get slower diagnosis and lesser care. And so, it obtains with years of life shaved off the end of their lives. And what gets me is they did this, the same agencies that advocated for this are the same agencies that had the records that said, we have the highest levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness among our children than we&#8217;ve had since records were being kept. So, let&#8217;s shut down the schools, which we know are essential to their development. It&#8217;s like throwing gas on a fire.&#8221;
McGraw also noted that by keeping children out of schools, there was likely an uptick in the amount of abuse that some faced at home because the programs that exist in schools for reporting such acts were not available.
&#8220;We simply abandoned them to their abusers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so many of these children relied on those schools for at least one if not two meals per day. We took that away, and some say well, but they delivered those meals, some got them delivered, some didn&#8217;t. So, we created a huge educational gap. We abandoned the abused and molested children to their abusers and molesters. And nobody has done anything to close the gap. Other than that, no problem.&#8221;
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A panel of appeals court judges has ruled that a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctors-accuse-fda-of-unlawfully-blocking-their-ability-to-treat-covid-19-patients-with-ivermectin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit from several doctors</a> challenging the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Food and Drug Administration</a> over its messaging on ivermectin can move forward after a federal judge had blocked the suit. 
The doctors sued the Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA, claiming their medical practices were harmed due to the FDA telling people not to take ivermectin, which some doctors have said could be used as a possible COVID treatment. HHS Secretary Xavier Beccera and FDA Commissioner Robert Califf are also named in the suit. 
“FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise — but not to endorse, denounce, or advise,” Judge Don Willett <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/fifth-circuit-ivermectin-order.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. “The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to.”
The ruling referenced an FDA post to X that instructed people not to take ivermectin because “you are not a horse.” The FDA has approved ivermectin to treat certain infections, but it has urged the public not to use it to treat COVID. 
“The messaging traveled widely across legacy and online media. Left unmentioned in most of that messaging: ivermectin also comes in a human version. And while the human version is not FDA-approved to treat the coronavirus, some people were using it off-label for that purpose,” the ruling said. 
According to the ruling, the doctors each prescribed ivermectin to treat COVID and said the FDA’s messaging interfered with their medical practice. The doctors allege that the FDA’s actions on ivermectin violate the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which governs how administrative agencies operate. 
“As such, the Doctors can use the APA to assert their ultra vires claims against the Agencies and the Officials,&#8221; the ruling said. &#8220;Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond the FDA’s statutory authority.&#8221;
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“This case has broad implications for protecting the practice of medicine from unlawful interference by the FDA,” <a href="https://boydengray.com/boyden-gray-pllc-federal-appeals-court-decision-takes-major-step-toward-holding-fda-accountable-for-overstepping-authority-and-unlawfully-interfering-with-practice-of-medicine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Jared Kelson, counsel at Boyden Gray PLLC, the firm that represented the doctors. “It’s about ensuring that federal agencies act only within their statutory authority. The FDA crossed a bright line here.”
Mary Talley Bowden, one of the doctors challenging the FDA, celebrated the ruling with a post to X.
“A small win, or at least a step forward, in a monumental battle to protect the doctor-patient relationship from government tyranny. ONWARD!” she <a href="https://twitter.com/mdbreathe/status/1697819048686559523?s=61&amp;t=AmzjiawkPU-YZpTc7gahMw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. 
Bowden was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-texas-media-health-e1f97db1cda6335aff1523ebaf389bf7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> from Houston Methodist Hospital after she vocally opposed vaccine mandates and advocated using ivermectin to treat COVID. The hospital said her statements and actions were “harmful to the community.”
“Dr. Mary Bowden, who recently joined the medical staff at Houston Methodist Hospital, is using her social media accounts to express her personal and political opinions about the COVID-19 vaccine and treatments,” the hospital said.

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‘Not A Physician’: Federal Judges Say Doctors Can Continue Suit Against FDA Over Ivermectin

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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers attended the US Open on Sunday night and appeared to praise tennis star Novak Djokovic’s refusal to get the COVID vaccine. 
Rodgers, who has received criticism in the past for his own actions regarding the COVID jab, was in attendance watching Djokovic in Queens, New York. Djokovic is competing in his first US Open in two years because he refused to get the shot. 
In an Instagram story Sunday night, Rodgers <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/aaron-rodgers-praises-novak-djokovics-anti-vaxx-stance-in-post-from-us-open/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a photo of Djokovic preparing to serve the ball with the caption, “Bucket list … being able to witness the greatness of [Djokovic] in person at [Arthur Ashe Stadium]. He also included a hashtag that said “#novaxdjokovic” and had placed a red line through the Moderna logo – a biotech company that produces COVID vaccines – in an advertisement that can be seen behind the tennis star. 
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Djokovic, who is from Serbia, is considered one of the <a href="https://www.espn.com/tennis/rankings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best</a> tennis players of all time but was denied entry into the United States in 2022 for the US Open. At the time, international air travelers were required to show <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/world-no-1-djokovic-finally-can-play-in-u-s-again-after-biden-ends-vaccine-requirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proof</a> of vaccination against COVID before being allowed to enter the country. 
Earlier this year, just weeks before the COVID rule was rescinded, Djokovic was <a href="https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/35795350/novak-djokovic-pulls-indian-wells-eve-draw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced to withdraw</a> from the Indian Wells tournament in California because the Department of Homeland Security denied his COVID vaccine waiver request, ESPN reported. 
“The reason why I was not here for two years, I have zero regret on that. I’m just glad to be back,” Djokovic <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/sport/novak-djokovic-cincinnati-open-tennis-spt-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN</a> last month upon arriving for the US Open. “I’ve had plenty of success on American soil with Indian Wells, Miami, obviously Canada and here, [I’ve] won many times at these Masters 1,000 events, all of them. Of course, the U.S. Open as well being the pinnacle of the hard-court season. I’m just excited.”
For his part, Rodgers has also made headlines for his refusal of the COVID vaccine. In 2021, Rodgers was asked whether he was vaccinated against COVID, to which he replied that he was “immunized.” The former Green Bay Packer said he is allergic to one of the ingredients in the Pfizer and Moderna shots. 
&#8220;They were doing this, I called it a witch hunt, where they were asking every single player ‘are you vaccinated?’” Rodgers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aaron-rodgers-blasts-medias-vaccine-witch-hunt-in-chat-with-joe-rogan-reveals-immunized-strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> podcast host Joe Rogan last year. “I had come to the conclusion that I was going to say, ‘I’ve been immunized,’ and if there was a follow-up, then talk about my process,” he said. “But I thought there was a possibility that, I say I’m immunized, maybe they understand what that means, maybe they don’t, maybe they follow up. They didn’t follow up.”
Instead of getting injected with a vaccine, Rodgers said he &#8220;looked into other options which included an immunization process through holistic doctor. I researched and talked to probably a dozen different MDs. I found a protocol that I felt like was the best available.”
Research on the relatively new COVID vaccines is still being conducted. According to one leading medical expert, young men <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-100-colleges-are-still-enforcing-vaccine-mandates-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">face an elevated risk</a> of heart inflammation after vaccination, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-100-colleges-are-still-enforcing-vaccine-mandates-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
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Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an oncology surgeon at the school’s affiliated hospital, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covid-vaccine-brings-higher-heart-risk-little-benefit-to-young-men-medical-expert-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> a study from Cedars Sinai that found a 30% increase in heart attack deaths among adults between the ages of 25 and 44 during the first two years of the COVID pandemic. While the uptick could result from the virus itself, Makary, speaking to The Daily Wire&#8217;s “Morning Wire” podcast in February, said there’s evidence that the vaccine could be to blame.
“We did not see the uptake before the vaccine was rolled out, but young people were primarily affected around that same time, as well,” Makary told “Morning Wire.&#8221; &#8220;The state of Florida did their own study, looking at heart attacks after the vaccine in particular, and found that there was an 81% increase in sudden death from heart attacks in the months following the vaccine compared to baseline rates. So many people do believe that the vaccine is one of the causes of heart problems in young people.”
Amanda Prestigiacomo contributed to this report.

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Aaron Rodgers Appears To Show Support For ‘Novax’ Djokovic’s COVID Vaccine Stance At US Open

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Johns Hopkins University health policy expert and surgeon Dr. Marty Makary said on Sunday that &#8220;highly partisan&#8221; experts changed the culture of medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic after recent remarks from Dr. Anthony Fauci responding to a study that said masks didn&#8217;t work.
&#8220;There&#8217;s been a lot of groupthink — there has been an attempt to silence anyone against the consensus and medicine change the culture of medicine changed during COVID,&#8221; Makary <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1698465910804169033" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News anchor Jon Scott on FOX Report.
&#8220;We now have an era where experts who are highly partisan are citing data with conclusions that they like even if those studies are flawed, and they ignore studies that have conclusions that they don&#8217;t want to hear, even if those studies have impeccable standards,&#8221; he added.
Makary&#8217;s comments were in response to a recent CNN appearance from former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was asked to respond to an analysis released in January by The Cochrane Institute that raised doubts about face masks being able to curb the spread of COVID.
The Cochrane study made the rounds earlier this year, leading to headlines saying that face masks made &#8220;little to no difference&#8221; in preventing the spread of COVID after a wave of mask guidelines and mandates during the pandemic.
&#8220;And Dr. Fauci, rather than criticize it or tried to point out a flaw in that study, acknowledges that it was &#8216;less strong than other data,'&#8221; Makary said.
During his CNN interviews, Fauci stressed that other reviews focus on the individual level.
&#8220;When you&#8217;re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,&#8221; Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-confronted-with-study-that-raised-doubts-about-masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting themselves from spreading it to others, there&#8217;s no doubt that there&#8217;s many studies that show that there is an advantage.&#8221;
He added that the Cochrane study&#8217;s population level showed the data as less firm regarding the effect on the overall pandemic.
&#8220;But we&#8217;re not talking about that — we&#8217;re talking about an individual&#8217;s effect on their own safety,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s a bit different than the broad population level.&#8221;
Makary further criticized the medical community for believing other pandemic-related recommendations from Dr. Fauci and how a similar &#8220;political allegiance&#8221; is emerging as some colleges require students to mask up again and take another COVID vaccine after a recent <a href="https://www.today.com/health/coronavirus/covid-summer-surge-2023-rcna100602">uptick in COVID cases</a> and the emergence of a new variant.
&#8220;We have ignored the data on the largest public health intervention in human history,&#8221; Makary <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1698472473141116950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Instead, everybody is rewriting their own story.&#8221;
&#8220;I wish we could have seen less sort of blind political allegiance to one or two public health experts and instead talk about things like obesity and the mental health crisis,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There&#8217;s a group of doctors that believe 100% of what Dr. Fauci has said from ignoring natural immunity to the data on myocarditis pushing boosters in young people, masking toddlers closing schools, and now you&#8217;re seeing the same sort of political allegiance with the mask issue and the Cochrane Review.&#8221;
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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Dr. Marty Makary Criticizes ‘Highly Partisan’ Experts For Changing Medical Community During Pandemic

Dr. Marty Makary Criticizes 'Highly Partisan' Experts For Changing Medical Community During Pandemic

Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci">Anthony Fauci</a> was asked to respond to a study that raised doubts about face masks being able to curb the spread of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a>.
The exchange happened during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3AMslS6cKw">interview on CNN</a> over the weekend when host Michael Smerconish brought up an analysis released in January by The Cochrane Institute. He also pointed to an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-work.html#:~:text=The%20conclusions%20were%20based%20on,against%20Covid%20than%20those%20without.">opinion piece</a> from Bret Stephens in The New York Times that quoted Oxford epidemiologist and lead author of the study, Tom Jefferson, <a href="https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/exclusive-lead-author-of-new-cochrane">telling journalist Maryanne Demasi</a> there was a lack of evidence underpinning the effectiveness of masks and saying mask mandates were based on &#8220;flawed&#8221; studies.
&#8220;Yeah but there are other studies,&#8221; Fauci replied, stressing that other reviews focus on the individual level.
“When you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,” Fauci said. “But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting themselves from spreading it to others, there’s no doubt that there’s many studies that show that there is an advantage.”
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&#8220;When you [look] at the broad population level like the Cochrane study, the data are less firm with regard to the effect on the overall pandemic,&#8221; Fauci added. &#8220;But we&#8217;re not talking about that, we&#8217;re talking about an individual&#8217;s effect on their own safety. That&#8217;s a bit different than the broad population level.&#8221;
The Cochrane study made the rounds earlier this year, leading to headlines saying that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html">face masks made</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/face-masks-made-little-to-no-difference-in-preventing-covid-study/">&#8220;little to no difference&#8221;</a> in preventing the spread of COVID after a wave of mask guidelines and mandates during the pandemic.
That led Karla Soares-Weiser, editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, <a href="https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review">to respond with a statement</a> in March saying it was an &#8220;inaccurate and misleading interpretation&#8221; to claim that the study found that &#8220;masks don&#8217;t work.&#8221;
Fauci, a longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, also said he was concerned that people would not adhere to health recommendations during an <a href="https://www.today.com/health/coronavirus/covid-summer-surge-2023-rcna100602">uptick in COVID cases</a> and the emergence of a new variant.
&#8220;I would hope that if in fact we get to the point that the volume of cases is such and organizations like the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] recommend — CDC does not mandate anything — recommends that people wear masks, I would hope that they abide by the recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and to their families.”

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Fauci Confronted With Study That Raised Doubts About Masks

House Republicans announced an investigation on Friday into gain-of-function research at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Wisconsin-Madison</a> that they said could be “dangerous.”
The <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023.09.01-BRW-Letter-to-UW.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> was sent by Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) to UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin requesting information on the university’s gain-of-function research and any information on if the university had worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology or on any coronavirus projects. 
The letter pointed to previous problems identified with gain-of-function research at the university, but the university has said that the controversial research is “needed and highly regulated.” 
Wenstrup said that he disagreed with the university’s assertion that there was enough regulation on gain-of-function research, saying that previous use of gain-of-function research at the university proved otherwise. 
“UW has already shown it has the capabilities to modify pathogens and make them more dangerous. In 2011, Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka revealed to the world that he had modified the deadly avian H5N1 influenza virus so it could spread between ferrets. This experiment enabled the bird virus to spread more easily among mammals, particularly ferrets which most closely mimic human response to the flu. The H5N1 virus is considered a ‘potential pandemic pathogen,’ which through modification or handling could cause another global pandemic,” Wenstrup wrote. 
The letter also referenced several instances where gain-of-function research was being conducted at the university and scientists working on the projects ended up in quarantine. In one instance, a researcher pricked their finger with a needle that had engineered high pathogenic avian influenza on it and had to have their family stay at a hotel while quarantining at home. 
In response to these reports, some Republican lawmakers in the state have moved to ban gain-of-function research. Rep. Elijah Behnke, Rep. Ty Bodden, and Sen. André Jacque are working on a <a href="https://wisconsinhealthnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/23-2947_1.pdf">bill</a> that would ban “institutions of higher education from conducting gain of function research on potentially pandemic pathogens, requiring reporting of the intention to conduct research on potentially pandemic pathogens, and providing a penalty.”
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The university has pushed back on the notion that the research is problematic, saying that it instead important for the public&#8217;s safety.
“The ability to safely study harmful viruses, bacteria and other pathogens is critically important for protecting public health and the food supply,” UW spokeswoman Kelly Tyrrell <a href="https://wisconsinhealthnews.com/2023/08/08/gop-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-gain-of-function-research-in-wisconsin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Wisconsin Health News. “UW-Madison is committed to ensuring that its researchers who work with high-risk pathogens have safe and secure laboratories and receive training and certification to ensure their investigations are conducted safely.”
Several federal government agencies believe that COVID likely escaped from a lab in China, potentially as they were conducting gain-of-function research on the coronavirus.

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